Beautiful... Story of finding love, exploring that love, finding God, balancing (or not) that faith with human love, and then human love lost. This is a love story, which I am not prone to enjoy. But Vanauken is so expressive in his language that it fueled me to continue on. This is one for me to read again. Some quotes:

"The actual thing - inloveness - requires something like a spark leaping back and forth from one to the other becoming more intense every moment, love building up like voltage in a coil."

"We saw self as the ultimate danger to love"

"When we first fell in love in the dead of winter, we said, 'If we aren't more in love in lilactime, we shall be finished.' But we were more in love: for love must grow or die."

pg 202-207 for a discourse on eternity...

Not all of his theses were palatable for me... but they were all very poignant and made me think.

Beautiful story, fantastic writing, wonderful introspection into his friendship with C.S. Lewis (almost just worth reading for the thoughts on Friendship).